Brush.



PATENTE) JULY 21, 1908.

No. 894,058I

E. E. RICE.

BRUSH.

APPLIUA'TION rILED Nov. 2o, w01.

UNITED sTATEs PATENT OFEioE;

' EDWARD E.l RIOE, OE NEW DURHAM, NEW HAMPSHIRE-Assioma To THE OsBORN MANU-I EACTURING COMPANY, or CLEVELAND,y OrnorL CORPORATION or OHIO.

BRUSH.

N o. 894,053. Y l l Specification of `letters Patent. vPatented July 21, 1908. Application led November 2li), 1907. Serial No: 402,9@ l

To all 'whom it may concern: vpose the tufts that enter into theconstruc- Be it known that I, EDWARD E. RIOE, a 'tion of such brush. ic' Vcitizen of the United States, resident of New As will be readily evident from an inspec- Drham, county of Stafford, 4and State of tion of the figures {ust' described, the brush 5 New Hampshire, have invented a new and comprisesessential y aback A, in suitable so useful Improvement in Brushes, vof which the apertures a in which are inserted a lplurality following is la specification, the principle of o bristle tufts B. The tufts are held ,in the invention being herein explained and the their respective apertures by means of Wires wbest mode in 'which I have contemplated apb or like fastening means that pass through jqlying that principle so as to distinguish it the heads of alined tufts, Fig. l, on the top 65 groin other inventions. side of the back A. These apertures are The present invention relates to the 'consuitably spaced a'nddisposed depending structionl or manufacture Of brushes, Aand upon the character of the tufts and the'parparticularly to b us'hes in yWhich metal ticular use to which the brush is to be put. strands or Wires e utilized in forming the It is to the form of the component strands 7.0 bristles or tufts of bristles that make up the `of the tufts themselves 'and to the manner bod)T of the brush. Brushes thus construct inlwhicl the latter are inserted With refer- 'ed are especially ada ted and largely used ence to such form that attention is more for removing the san from the surfaces ofv particularly desired, These tufts are coml new iron castin s. VAs is Well understood the posed of a number O f flat metal strands b 75 desiderata in t e construction of brushes of doubled over upon themselves and assem- -1 lthis character 'are a reduction of the vibrabled with their lfiat facesin juxtaposition; tions that are setup among the strands 'when The doubled over ends desi ned for inser-l the brush isin use anda transfer ofthe cen`4 tion in the apertures a in t e back A. are

ter of such vibration, in the case of the indilpressed tightly against eachr other, but the 80 vidual strand, from its point of attachment ree ends naturally more or less bushy or to the back` of the brush to a lower point divergent are rendered still more so by being along the strand. This may be more sim ly crimped transversely of their fiat faces sub'- eXpressed b stating that it isdesirable t at stantially throughout the Whole length of 3o the strand eI bent more or less uniformly such free portions of the strand., The tuftsgg,

- throughout its' len th instead of vibrating thus composed and'assembled are inserted simply at its point of attachment to the back. carefully so as to dispose such flat crimped The effect of such vibration, in the case of a faces o the constituent strands transverse metal strand at least, is very quickly to cause of the proposed direction of movement of the metal to crystalline or become brittle and they brushl whenin use. This, Where the 99 breakoif. It is with a view to accomplishbrush is of oblong form, Will ordinarily be ing the desirable results above noted, in a transversely of its length. The fastening more perfect degree than has heretofore been Wires b it will bel observed serve to-maintain Ossib e, that the present invention has been the tufts in their proper original positions. 40 evised. f y By the foregoing construction of brush I 95' To this end, then, said invention consists attain a much superior and more durable of the means hereinafter full described and article. 'By having theflat strands bent or particularly pointed out in tile claims.' crim ed all in the same Wa and then dis- The annexed drawing and the following posed, when inserted inl'the brrush back, in a description set forth in detail certain mechdefinite relation With'respect to such man-5l or; anism embodying the invention, such disner of bending or crimping, the necessary closed means constituting, however, but one ,-body is given to the brush in the direc. of various mechanical forms in which the tion of movement of the latter lwhen in "use, principle of the invention may be used. that is, the strands Will support eachother In said annexed drawin -Figure 1 is a in thisvdirection, the movement of onebeing 105 perspective view of a brus embodyin mytransmitted to the next adjacent and soi ,n several im rovements;Fig. 2is an`ende evadown the entire length ofthe brush'.` n tion of such brush; and Fig. 3 is a espective this Way'the strain on the individual strands view of several detached strands sliiowmg the is very much decreased, as is also thev tendmanner in Whichthey are assembled to comency to vibration, owing to the-inter-engage- 1 if;

ment of the longitudinally adjacent faces of the strands. At the same time thereis no such interference between laterally adjacent strands, each strand being as free to move, so far as the strands on either side are concerned, as in the ordinary flat Wire brush. Thus, a much v superior result obtained over that secured in round Wire brushes Which l am Well aware have been crimped, for in the latter the-direction of the crimping With relation to the movement of the brush is Wholly a matter of indifference and cannot be controlled. Such brushes accord: ingly tend to become tangled fromvthe first and from use very quickly become f matted thus defeating the use of the brush in its proper Way at all. A peculiar efficacy is accordingly seen to be attached tothe application of crimping to the strands of the fiat Wire brush which so far as I am aware have lever been appreciated nor realized heretoore.

Having thus described my invention in detail that which I particularly point out and distinctly claim is 1. As an article of manufacture, a brush comprising a back and a plurality of fiat strands inserted therein, said strands having their flattened faces transversely crimped substantially throughout their length and being disposed with such faces transverse of the roposed direction of movement of the brus 1 in use.

2. As an element in a brush, a tuft consisting of a number of ilat metal strands doubled over and assembled .With their flat faces in juxtaposition, such faces being transversely crimped substantially throughout the length of the strands.

3. As an article of manufacture, a brush comprising a back, and a plurality of tufts .inserted therein, each such tuft consisting of faces transversely crimped substantially throughout the length of the' strand.

Signed by me this 15th day of November,

' EDWARD E. RICE.

Attested by- E. R. RODD, JNO. F.- OBERLIN. 

